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" The slaves were all enclosed under grated hatchways, between decks. The space was so low, that they sat between each other's legs, and stowed so close together, that there was no possibility of their lying down, or at all changing their position, by night... "
Africa and the American Flag - Page 226
by Andrew Hull Foote - 1854 - 390 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 55

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 600 pages
...seventeen days, during which she had thrown overboard fifty -five.' ' The slaves were all enclosed under grated hatchways, between decks. The space was...their position, by night or day. As they belonged to, and were shipped on account of, different individuals, they were all branded like sheep, with the owner's...
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Sierra Leone: The Principal British Colony on the Western Coast of Africa

William Whitaker Shreeve - Sierra Leone - 1817 - 128 pages
...taken on board 562, and had been out l7 days, during which she lost 55. The slaves were all enclosed under grated hatchways between decks. The space was...down, or at all changing their position by night or by day. As they belonged to, and were shipped on account of, different individuals, they were all branded...
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Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829, Volume 2

Robert Walsh - Brazil - 1830 - 592 pages
...out seventeen days, during which she had thrown overboard fifty-five. The slaves were all enclosed under grated hatchways, between decks. The space was...their position, by night or day. As they belonged to, and were shipped on account of different individuals, they were all branded, like sheep, with the owners'...
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The Imperial Magazine, Or, Compendium of Religious, Moral ..., Volume 12

1830 - 614 pages
...out seventeen days, during which she had thrown overboard fifty-rive. The slaves were all enclosed under grated hatchways, between decks. The space was...they sat between each other's legs, and stowed so dose together, that there was no possibility of their lying down, or at all changing their position,...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1831 - 858 pages
...out seventeen days, during which she had thrown ovei1 lourd fifty-lire. The slaves were all enclosed under grated hatchways between decks. The space was...or at all changing their position, by night or day. They were all branded, like sheep, with the owner's marks [Dr. Walsh inserts fac-similies of these...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 11

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 616 pages
...during which she had thrown overboard fifty-five. The slaves were all enclosed under grated natchways, between decks. The space was so low, that they sat...their position, by night or day. As they belonged to, and were sh,pped on aecount of, dinerent individuals, they were all branded, like sheep, with the owners'...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 11

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 622 pages
...out seventeen days, during which she had thrown overboard fifty-five. The slaves were all enclosed under grated "hatchways, between decks. The space...was so low, that they sat between each other's legs, an¿ stowed so close together, that Ibère was no possibility of their lying down, or at all chancúe...
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Encyclopædia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T ...

Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...had thrown overboard 6ftv-n«The slaves were all enclosed under grated baicbways, between deck.«. The space 'was so low, that they sat between each other's legs, ana slowed so close together, that there was no possibility of their lying down, or at all changing...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 11

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 624 pages
...during which she had thrown overboard fiftv-five. The slaves were all enelosed under grated "hatehways, between decks. The space was so low, that they sat between each other's legs. and stowcd so close together, that there was no possibil,ty of their lying down, or at all changing their...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 55

English literature - 1836 - 602 pages
...seventeen days, during which she had thrown overboard fifty -fioe.' ' The slaves were all enclosed under grated hatchways, between decks. The space was...their position, by night or day. As they belonged to, and were shipped on account of, different individuals, they were all branded like sheep, with the owner's...
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